AS bases histórico-culturais para uma psicologia das artes (o interesse pela estética cênica nas origens do pensamento psicológico de Lev Semenovich Vygotsky)

Abstract

This paper presents the historical and social context in which Vygotsky had written his “Psychology of Art”. It recognizes in “Psychology of Art” the origins of vigotskian thought over which the Sociohistorical Theory of high mental functions has been constructed. It discusses his Esthetic Reaction Theory and Catarsis concept aside their implications to the teaching of arts in school education.